Trump appeals SCOTUS ballroom ruling
by Flint: Donald Trump
President Trump has taken the fight for his White House ballroom-military complex straight to the SUPREME COURT. The appeal seeks to overturn an activist judge’s ruling, with 47 classifying the project as vital for national security to bypass leftists in the court system. SOLICITOR GENERAL SAUER argues that letting the injunction stand would wrongfully install a single district judge as the sole arbiter of what construction is strictly necessary. That necessity covers protecting the President, his family, staff, and visitors including foreign dignitaries and other heads of state. The push urges SCOTUS to do the right thing.
Transcript (en)
To the Supreme Court. This comes after a D.C. appeals court rules it can't be built without congressional approval. Our own Chanley Painter is here and she has details on this. Chanley, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. So the federal appeals court affirming two to one that whether, quote, a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and not a matter for executive self-help. And it cites the Constitution as assigning Congress, not the executive, THE RESPONSIBILITY TO DECIDE PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE PHYSICAL DESIGN OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND THAT IN ORDER TO MOVE FORWARD, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION MUST OBTAIN CONGRESS' AUTHORIZATION. WELL, PRESIDENT TRUMP BLASTED THE RULING ON TRUTH SOCIAL SAYING, IN PART, QUOTE, WE ARE PRESIDENTS ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HAVE MANY RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO FIX, RENOVATE, SECURE, PROTECT, AND BEAUTIFY THE WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS, WHICH HAS BEEN BUILT AND REBUILT AND renovated and re-renovated, repaired and simply made better. The president and his team also argue that the project is a critical safety issue. This is a national security facility to keep the president safe, to keep his family safe, to keep senior officials safe, visiting dignitary safe. We just had the attack at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and we're actually having this conversation. Shame on these judges. Let's get real in this country. Let's have a court system that actually upholds the laws.
